Re: WOW! It's... El Prototypo! (New GARNOME format.)

[Stef van der Made <svdmade planet nl>]

Dear All,

Elprototypo has been compiled successfully on slackware 8.0+. Only 
gstreamer and epiphany didn't compile. Epiphany for not having the 
mozilla sources and gstreamer due to a bug that has been filed on bugzilla.

The size of the sources for platform+desktop is 2.0 GB
The software for platform+desktop is 528MB

Build time real time was around 3 hours

Cheers

Stef

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Finally, a combination of a few days off and some rested headspace have
> contributed to me finally getting around to doing the big layout migration
> that I've been meaning to do for ages. HERE IT IS! :-)
>
> El Prototypo is all the same stuff as before, but hopefully in a more
> accessible and understandable format. Rather than having meta garballs that
> go off and build garballs in badly defined directories, I've nailed down a
> set of directories that represent real or idealised GNOME release sets. This
> means that users of the build system are more exposed to the underlying idea
> that GARNOME is a ports tree. That's a good thing, and will hopefully make
> it easier to understand, and therefore contribute!
>
> Some notes to get you started:
>
>  * There is no meta directory anymore, just a series of directories that
>    represent GNOME release sets. To build the GNOME Desktop release, you
>    once did this:
>
>      cd meta/gnome-desktop; make install
>
>    Now you do this:
>
>      cd desktop; make paranoid-install
>
>  * Whenever you're building one of the directories, use paranoid-install so
>    GAR ensures that every garball is built. I will probably make it so that
>    'install' does a 'paranoid-install' in the root and each category in
>    future.
>
>  * Anything you do in the root will not affect the bindings or broken
>    categories. ie. if you do 'make paranoid-garchive' in the root to
>    download everything, it will *totally ignore* everything under broken
>    and bootstrap. If you want to build anything in there, you'll have to do
>    it manually. (I've done this because most people will not need anything
>    in these directories, and will want to ignore them. Anyone who needs
>    them will know already.)
>
>  * The broken category includes modules that are unlikely to build on most
>    systems. If you have fixes for these, please tell me and the author so
>    we can convince them to do a new release. :-)
>
>  * The GNOME-related settings are now kept in gar.gnome.mk, including your
>    preferred download mirrors. Change settings here if you don't want to
>    build with debugging symbols (NAUGHTY!) or have a server closer to you.
>
> If you have any suggestions, fixes, changes posted to the list that I've
> missed, or evidence of muppetry on my part, please mail the list, I'm paying
> attention again. :-) There will be another GARNOME coming out on or around
> Wednesday next week, along with the GNOME 2.5.2 release.
>
> Hey, you'd probably like a link so you can try this sucker out! HERE IT IS:
>
>  http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/download/elprototypo-0.0.1.tar.bz2
>
> Rock on,
>
> - Jeff
>
>